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Jey and Sami are probably going to start a splinter faction, this is the start of a storyline, not the end
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post hole digger posted:i might be wrong but my sense is that that is a pretty universal opinion at this point Oh yeah I don't think I was issuing a hot take or anything.
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the post match stuff took too long but im still thinking about it and coming on here to read posts about it, so its hard for me to say it wasnt good.
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i get why they let it build though, and not having commentary say anything added to it too
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Jan 29, 2023 06:50
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lol Cody is terrible at ranking wrestlers
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Jan 29, 2023 06:50
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Charity Porno posted:I don't know where you're getting this, The Bloodline is the one consistent thing the fans are into. The entirety of it being over has been for this moment and the moment came and they had the guy swing a chair once and then apologize before getting the poo poo beaten out of him.
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Jan 29, 2023 06:50
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I want Sami to win the title and then shoot refuse to drop it before the Saudi show
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sportsgenius86 posted:The entirety of it being over has been for this moment and the moment came and they had the guy swing a chair once and then apologize before getting the poo poo beaten out of him. Sami Zayn is the wily guy who wins through guile and cunning, he was never going to take on multiple members if thr Bloodline at once and no one who knows what his character is would have expected that.
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MJeff posted:Sami and KO wrestling the Usos at Mania would feel like such an anti-climax. I can agree with that; I think Sami winning the Rumble would have definitely been a better story and Cody definitely doesn't need it as much to justify his place at Wrestlemania.
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Jan 29, 2023 06:52
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sportsgenius86 posted:The entirety of it being over has been for this moment and the moment came and they had the guy swing a chair once and then apologize before getting the poo poo beaten out of him. If Sami isn't beating Roman for the title, then this is pretty fuckin' egregious too, because that was Sami's one chance to meaningfully stand tall over the Bloodline at all.
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Jan 29, 2023 06:53
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Cody coming out at 30 even though they promoted that he'd be returning at the Rumble for a month was the dumbest thing
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sportsgenius86 posted:The entirety of it being over has been for this moment and the moment came and they had the guy swing a chair once and then apologize before getting the poo poo beaten out of him. Sami attacking the Usos, who have mostly stuck up for him and been on his side, would have been a lovely thing for him to do. Hitting Roman and then trying to explain to the Usos why, and then having him get attacked makes him more sympathetic and clearly a babyface.
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Full disclosure: I kinda zoned out when Rey's music hit and didn't notice he hadn't come out until Dom came out with his mask.
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Codependent Poster posted:Sami attacking the Usos, who have mostly stuck up for him and been on his side, would have been a lovely thing for him to do. Hitting Roman and then trying to explain to the Usos why, and then having him get attacked makes him more sympathetic and clearly a babyface. I'm guessing we get KO, Jey, and Sami vs. Roman, Solo, and Jimmy at EC, The Bloodline falls apart more, Team Sami gets the win, and that justifies the WM title match.
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Codependent Poster posted:Sami attacking the Usos, who have mostly stuck up for him and been on his side, would have been a lovely thing for him to do. Hitting Roman and then trying to explain to the Usos why, and then having him get attacked makes him more sympathetic and clearly a babyface. It's also exposed the first crack in the Bloodline. If Jey is now doubting, which he has since Roman beat him in the beginning, he can get to Jimmy. Like I said, it's starting up a new story and there's no version of Ssmi Zayn's current character that Hulks out and takes out the entire Bloodline
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El Generico posted:I'm guessing we get KO, Jey, and Sami vs. Roman, Solo, and Jimmy at EC, The Bloodline falls apart more, Team Sami gets the win, and that justifies the WM title match. That makes a ton of sense. I could totally see that happening.
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Jan 29, 2023 06:57
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Instead of doing "Roman defends one title over two nights", they do it as a triple threat on the second night (Roman, Sami, and Cody) with both belts on the line, with two falls (ala Jericho, Angle, and Benoit). Then they have Sami and Cody pin each other so Roman never gets pinned and both belts are split. And then later Roman wins them back because WWE is still desperate for a Roman/Rock match.
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sportsgenius86 posted:The entirety of it being over has been for this moment and the moment came and they had the guy swing a chair once and then apologize before getting the poo poo beaten out of him. 
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Jan 29, 2023 06:58
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sami zayn looks sick and frail. not going to act silly or make any jokes about it. i hope he isn't hiding anything the way vince isn't even hiding that he's back. vince is, for sure, back. he isn't even pretending he's still gone. the information came out a while back.
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Codependent Poster posted:Sami attacking the Usos, who have mostly stuck up for him and been on his side, would have been a lovely thing for him to do. Hitting Roman and then trying to explain to the Usos why, and then having him get attacked makes him more sympathetic and clearly a babyface. it makes him look like the stupidest motherfucker on the planet.
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Jan 29, 2023 06:59
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Sami, KO and Jay start the Friendline
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Jan 29, 2023 06:59
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Sami isn't even going to get a title shot out of this
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Jan 29, 2023 07:00
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Someone elsewhere pointed out that it was the exact same chairshot to the back spot as when Seth betrayed the Shield. I don't know if anyone pointed that out here I only just started reading the thread. If it has, then sorry, if it hasn't, well now I pointed it out
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El Generico posted:I'm guessing we get KO, Jey, and Sami vs. Roman, Solo, and Jimmy at EC, The Bloodline falls apart more, Team Sami gets the win, and that justifies the WM title match. yea seems like the easiest route to go for this, nice and even split now means we can get some classic 3 v 3 shenanigans that ends with the 'leaders' squaring off at WM
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Jan 29, 2023 07:06
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sportsgenius86 posted:The entirety of it being over has been for this moment and the moment came and they had the guy swing a chair once and then apologize before getting the poo poo beaten out of him. I’m thankful you don’t book the shows
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El Generico posted:Someone elsewhere pointed out that it was the exact same chairshot to the back spot as when Seth betrayed the Shield. I don't know if anyone pointed that out here I only just started reading the thread. If it has, then sorry, if it hasn't, well now I pointed it out it wasn't the exact same chairshot. I'm so sorry
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did anyone else laugh extremely hard for about 5 minutes straight at nikki cross going full tilt robert patrick as the t1000 sprint to the ring
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SirPhoebos posted:Sami isn't even going to get a title shot out of this I'm pretty loudly on the 'this was a dumb way to do this' side but even I don't think WWE is THAT poo poo at writing. Sami's the victim of Roman's sadism, even the biggest hack in the writer's room knows the payoff for that is getting a title match with your abuser. Now the question is if they actually let Roman get his karma and drop the title as the nice bookend to all this, or if Sami's going to get buried so some other good guy can be the REAL hero. THAT'S where the hack check is.
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Cavauro posted:it wasn't the exact same chairshot. I'm so sorry same chair and everything.
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El Generico posted:I'm guessing we get KO, Jey, and Sami vs. Roman, Solo, and Jimmy at EC, The Bloodline falls apart more, Team Sami gets the win, and that justifies the WM title match. Can’t enter Canada with a DUI
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Alaois posted:did anyone else laugh extremely hard for about 5 minutes straight at nikki cross going full tilt robert patrick as the t1000 sprint to the ring There were so many commercials during Lakers/Celtics that I was still able to watch like 80% of the woman's rumble but I unfortunately missed this good thing.
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The storyline is great and I’m ok with not knowing exactly what match is going to happen when. Roman is going to destroy his own empire and lose all his titles because of his inability to stop pushing Sami and just trust, and however long that takes to happen I’ll be ok with cause it’s all been good so far. Starmaking performance from Gunther tonight too btw, if having the WWE moty wasn’t enough. Blasmeister fucked around with this message at 07:40 on Jan 29, 2023 |
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Alaois posted:did anyone else laugh extremely hard for about 5 minutes straight at nikki cross going full tilt robert patrick as the t1000 sprint to the ring It reminded me more of WWE Wrestlemania 2000 on N64 where they would just run full force down that short entrance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dYuRXj-ksg&t=193s
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xbilkis posted:Lol I just realized that JONAH wasn't even in the Rumble Huh. He only had one appearance as Miz's heavy right?
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I dunno where else to put this, but the WWE desperately needs to kill the iron man thing in rumbles for like, three or four years. At least three years. It's got to be the single most overdone angle in wrestling, which is an entire business built on stale angles. It's not cool or impressive anymore. It no longer showcases a talent. It's rear end and it makes them and the rest of your roster also look like rear end. It's hard to be impressed with something when it's not even a feat anymore. It should be a rare achievement, but instead it's a foregone conclusion and it's boring and reductive. When you have a wrestler in both rumbles go from 1 to the end, either winning or coming this close it doesn't actually tell me you have faith in them, at this point. It tells me you need to put more shine on them, which ends up just making them look bad. Especially when it's not an unexpected wrestler.
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It can be fine if they showcase someone actually doing stuff for an hour but instead you just end up with Gunther and Rhea napping in the corner
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I like the Bloodline story I think they handle it very well for the most part
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I enjoyed the show. Put a smile on my face. That said, - Anything Roman-related just goes on way too long. - "I dunno where else to put this, but the WWE desperately needs to kill the iron man thing in rumbles for like, three or four years. At least three years." This. The WALTER stuff at the beginning and end were great, but everything else was just passing time. (The Drew/Sheamus eliminations just seemed obligatory, "we're at the 45-minute mark, time to have some guys leave.") I don't remember a single thing Edge did in 2021. Etc. - If you write down the women's Rumble booking – there's literally 12 people still in the ring after the 30th entrant's botched entrance – it sounds like an all-time bad match, but I had fun. Some low-carders were in there for far, far, far too long though. - Just, lol Nia Jax.
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